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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 21, 2013
Whoopsies. It appears that the popular "Avast! Mobile Security" -- it's got somewhere between 10 million and 50 million downloads from Google Play -- is marking Android's Gmail as ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 20, 2013
Google Currents got itself an interesting update today with support for editions that contain audio. Looks like you'll now be able to play audio from within the application itself, complete with...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 20, 2013
We put the HTC One up against the Galaxy Note 2, Nexus 4 and HTC One X in a basic test
As we've been prone to do with recent phones, we're doing more speaker comparisons. This is unscien...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 20, 2013
Manual update file also is available
Just a quick reminder, folks, that Android 4.2.2 (Build JDQ39) is now available for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. You get all the benefits that other Galaxy Nexu...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2013
Two of the most important features on the HTC One are also two of the most confusing
One of the most important -- and impressive -- features of the HTC One is, of course, the camera. We're n...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2013
Finally.
Verizon has announced that starting today, its much-maligned Samsung Galaxy Nexus will finally get Android 4.2.2, some time after nearly every other version of Google's 2012 flagship s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2013
In my Sunday column I wrote about HTC hitting up the queue outside the Samsung Unpacked event at Radio City Music Hall, handing out swag and showing off the HTC One. Turns out HTC was a couple ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2013
Maybe a white Galaxy S3 isn't your thing. Perhaps Blue gives you the blues. Perpetual leaker evleaks is back again with an oddly purple Galaxy S3, which he says is destined for Sprint ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2013
Google Drive has an issue, Google says this morning. And ... that's it. Fact is it's slow as hell on the web -- if it loads at all -- and mobile's only slightly better.
Google now says ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 17, 2013
The recurring theme running through my head the past few days is, obviously, the headline for this column. Timing is everything. OK, maybe not everything in the mobile business -- hardware and softw...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 16, 2013
Making a decision between the HTC One and the Galaxy S4 isn't going to be easy for many folks
The battle lines have quickly been drawn between two of 2013's hottest Android smartphone...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 15, 2013
It's good to take a look back sometimes. The mobile business moves ridiculously fast. It has its hits. It has its misses. Sometimes it has both simultaneously.
I can't say I'm a t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 15, 2013
Samsung officially announces the Galaxy S4
Samsung Galaxy S4 hands-on
Samsung Galaxy S4 specs
Relive Samsung's Galaxy S4 announcement event
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 14, 2013
Truth be told, the Samsung Galaxy S4 hardware isn't really the star of the show. But that's not to say the Galaxy S4 specs aren't impressive. They most certainly are, and it's e...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 14, 2013
Refined design, updated internals - and some incredible new software features. This is the Samsung Galaxy S4
You're Samsung. You easily have the world's leading line of smartphone. The G...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 14, 2013
It's our liveblog of Samsung's Galaxy S4 launch event, live from NYC!
We're live the Radio City Music Hall in New York City for what is expected to be the unveiling of the Samsung Ga...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 13, 2013
In case you've been living under a rock the past couple weeks, Samsung's throwing a little party on Thursday night in Times Square, and we're here in New York to partake in the festiviti...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2013
If there's one feature of HTC's new Sense 5 that's taken us extra time to get used to, it's the new app drawer. HTC's attempt to simplify things has, in fact, made them more comp...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2013
One downside to being the dude who's dead set against unboxings is that you occasionally find your self taking a phone out of a box and filming it for all the world to see. But seeing as how we&...
